From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-12-16T07:39:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Kids?

On 12/15/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> The two languages I wish I had learned were APL and Smalltalk. I suppose
> I could still learn Smalltalk, but Ruby seems a lot easier to use -- the
> Squeak environment, for example, is hopelessly complicated, not to
> mention visually garish. And APL seems to have vanished from the planet.
> The kind of people who used to use APL, finance geeks, now use R, which
> I *do* know.

J and K seem to be the current children of APL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_programming_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

martin